The catalogue contains 4174 stars in the Northern Milky Way, in the range 32{deg}<l<214{deg}, -10{deg}<b<+10{deg}, having the H line in emission. The HBH list (main list, Schmidt camera Hamburg-Bergedorf, red plates taken in the years 1964-70) contains 1979 objects partly identical with those in other lists of H emission-line stars given in the literature up till 1994. Non-stellar objects (e.g. HII regions, planetary nebulae) have not been included in this catalogue except for those objects containing central stars which have the H line in emission, and also for some doubtful cases.